JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir once again forced his way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem. Ben-Gvir entered the site under heavy police protection and toured the mosque’s courtyard, said an official with the Jordan-run Islamic Endowments Department in Jerusalem. This was his fifth...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas has demanded that the next week’s joint Arab-Islamic follow-up summit take responsibility for the occupied city of Jerusalem, which is undergoing a “systematic Israeli Judaization campaign.” “It is time for the Islamic nations to fulfill their religious and political du...
JERUSALEM (AA) – For the second consecutive day, hundreds of illegal Israeli settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem on Monday to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Settlers entered the flashpoint site in groups through the Mughrabi Gate in the western wall of the mosque under Israeli police protection...
LONDON (AA) – The EU foreign policy chief has called on the international community to address concerns on repeated violations of the status quo of holy sites in Jerusalem. Josep Borrell wrote on X that he shares Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi’s concerns about the repeated violations of the status quo of the Holy Sites [&h...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli government will finance for the first time the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied East Jerusalem. According to the Israeli public broadcaster KAN, the office of Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu will allocate 2 million NIS ($545,000) for the project which is expected to...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US said Monday that “provocations only exacerbate tensions” after Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said he would build a synagogue in Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem. “Provocations only exacerbate tensions at a pivotal moment when all focus should be on the ongoi...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestine strongly denounced a call by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Monday to build a synagogue inside the sacred Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem as an attempt to drag the region into a “religious war.” “The Palestinian people will not accept any harm to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which [&...
ANKARA (AA) – Condemnations have poured in from across the Arab world following the storming by Israeli ministers and illegal settlers of the sacred Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem. Over 2,200 illegal settlers forced their way into the flashpoint site in order to commemorate Tisha B’Av, an annual Jewish fast day that ma...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The storming of the al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem by hundreds of radical Israelis is “unacceptable,” the US Statement Department said Tuesday. “Let me just say clearly that the United States stands firmly for preservation of the historic status quo with respect to the holy sites of ...
Jerusalem, Occupied Palestinian Territories– AFP A far-right Israeli minister with the power to bring down the government has released a video from the Al-Aqsa mosque compound to warn Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the war on Gaza. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, known for his provocative gestures and comments, said N...
